I am in complete agreement with Richard, and pronounce anathema on
undifferentiated name headings.
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] a NACO question
I tend to agree with John on this. Identifying authors by means of their
headings is useful, but differentiation and collocation are of primary
importance in retrieval, in my book (so to speak). If the rules allowed,
I'd qualify someone by their shoe size, rather than undifferentiate.
Cheers
Richard
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Hall, Jack wrote:
> I would rather add the name to an undifferentiated record than come up
> with a |c. For one thing, the field of endeavor can change.
It is highly probable that 99.9% of all authors writing from the 20th
century on with multiple disciplinary interests would not need $c
qualifiers relating to one of those interests because they either may
need no qualifiers or there are other qualifiers available.
In some rare cases it might be necessary to apply qualifiers that
stretch credulity, but a simple rule allowing the changing of such
"incredible"
qualifiers when more practical information becomes available would
relieve a lot of stress.
Keep in mind that these qualifiers are purposed solely to distinguish
authors from one another, not to define individual identities per se.
Cheers!
jgm
John G. Marr
Cataloger
CDS, UL
Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
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